Addiction To Growth Will Bleed Us Dry

The Niagara Bottling plant is nearly ready to go online and siphon up to 1.8 million gallons of water per day from our drought-stricken area –- this after the Metropolitan District Commission assured the public there was plenty of water supply to accommodate this massive daily depletion.

We are addicted to growth, and growth for the sake of more growth is hell on ecosystems. The Earth cannot accommodate more, more, more, so it simply won't.

We do not need more of everything so as to induce more babies to be born, only to have those babies grow up to find that there isn't enough for them to have lives as good as ours were. That is selfish and short-sighted in the extreme.

Allow a bottling company to suck up water, as Niagara is allowed in Bloomfield, and we definitely won’t have enough. All we will have is a crashed ecosystem and a water vampire that will never leave unless and until it has sucked us dry.

Allowing a water bottling corporation to have any of our water opens the floodgates to an ecological disaster. That is anti-business.